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Mobile units will be deployed on high streets to identify wanted people – including repeat offendersThe government is investing more than £55m in expanding facial recognition systems – including vans that will scan crowded high streets – as part of a renewed crackdown on shoplifting.The scheme was announced alongside plans for tougher punishments for serial or abusive shoplifters in England and Wales, including being...

Mother of murder victim Brianna Ghey and mother of her killer meet and decide to campaign together on dangers of mobile phonesIn an anonymous office on a business park in Warrington, two mothers met last week for the first time. Esther Ghey and Emma Sutton sat down together for what one restorative justice expert called the most “extraordinarily unusual” meeting he had heard of...

Exclusive: Sobhia Khan’s husband was being monitored in hospital over violent and sexual offences against a former partnerThe family of a woman who was murdered by a convicted violent offender when he was supposed to be under supervision have said she would still be alive had the police, social services and mental healthcare providers not failed her.Sobhia Khan, 37 at the time of her...

Amina Noor travelled from north London with the child to Kenya where the procedure was carried out in 2006A woman who was found guilty of handing over a three-year-old British girl for female genital mutilation (FGM) during a trip to Kenya has been jailed for seven years.Amina Noor, 40, was convicted last year of assisting a Kenyan woman to carry out the procedure overseas...

Teenagers are coerced into committing crime for someone else’s benefit, according to social justice groupsAlmost half of the victims of criminal exploitation in the UK are British boys aged under 18, according to a report calling for new laws to acknowledge them as ­victims of modern slavery.The analysis, by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) thinktank and the charity Justice and Care, found that...

It is the second time in less than two years the Caribbean archipelago is seeing escalating violence, attributed to warring drug gangsThe United Kingdom is sending specialist assistance to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) following a surge in shooting deaths in the Caribbean archipelago.Four men were found dead from gunshot wounds on the island of Providenciales on 1 and 2 February, and two...

Fear of crime in UK capital is one of biggest concerns of rich Indians, says entrepreneurIndian business people are avoiding being out and about in Mayfair over fears they could be mugged for their expensive watches after a 27% rise in “theft from a person” in London, an entrepreneur has said.Devin Narang, an entrepreneur, told a meeting attended by David Lammy, the shadow foreign...

Decision comes as grocery retailer reports 1,000 incidents a day in 2023, with shopworkers suffering physical assaultsThe Co-op is installing in its supermarkets more than 200 secure till kiosks, locked cabinets for bottles of spirits and AI technology to monitor self-checkouts after a 44% surge in retail crime last year to about 1,000 incidents a day.The grocery retailer, which has more than 2,400 stores...

Study finds that lockdowns and cuts to local services are partly to blameProgress on tackling youth violence in Scotland is slowing as young people struggle to access “safe spaces”, according to a new report.The study, by researchers at the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and the Open University, examined the past, present and future of violence reduction in Scotland and found that while incidences of...

Decorator Matthew Turner stole three watches worth more than £30,000 from Hugh Grosvenor’s bedroomA decorator who stole three watches worth more than £30,000 from the Duke of Westminster’s home has been told he “escaped prison by the skin of your teeth”.Matthew Turner, 24, was given a 20-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Chester crown court after admitting the burglary of three watches from...

Victoria Prentis to decide whether judges should look at Valdo Calocane’s detention order after families say it is unduly lenientThe attorney general is considering whether judges should review the sentence of the Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane after receiving a submission that it could be unduly lenient.Calocane, 32, who goes by the name Adam Mendes, denied murdering Barnaby Webber, 19, Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19, and Ian...

Exclusive: Robin Garbutt says faulty Post Office computer system is not only misleading evidence used to convict himA man who claims the Post Office’s faulty computer system was used to frame him for murdering his wife says he is not jumping on “the Horizon bandwagon”, and that there is other evidence pointing to his wrongful conviction.Robin Garbutt, 58, has spent the last 12 years...

Robin Garbutt hopes for fresh appeal against conviction that came after jury heard evidence using data from discredited IT systemA post office owner serving a life sentence for murdering his wife hopes to submit a fresh appeal against his conviction, claiming the discredited Horizon computer system was used to wrongly frame him for the killing.Robin Garbutt has maintained his innocence ever since his wife,...

More than 33,500 videos sent to police in England and Wales in year to November, up 30% on 2022Dangerous drivers are being caught on camera and shopped to the police in increasing numbers, with other drivers and the general public having sent more than 100,000 video reports to UK police forces.The number of reports filed in 2023 increased by 30% compared with the previous...

Some also noted rise in Islamophobia, as Muslim and Jewish charities condemn hateThe number of antisemitic hate crimes recorded by many of the UK’s largest police forces jumped sharply in the weeks after the outbreak of the Gaza-Israel conflict, figures reveal.Islamophobic offences also rose for some forces, although the overall picture was more mixed across the country. Continue reading...